Gown

Gown and town row. A scrimmage between the students of
different colleges, on one side, and the townsmen, on the other. These
feuds go back to the reign of King John, when 3,000 students left
Oxford for Reading, owing to a quarrel with the men of the town. What
little now remains of this “ancient tenure” is confined, as far as the
town is concerned, to the bargees and their “tails.”